Abstract

This working paper is the manuscript for a book titled "Decision Analysis with Multiple Conflicting Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs" being published by John Wiley and Sons, New York. It is being distributed now in very limited number prior to formal publication both (1) to facilitate the use of these results within the IIASA projects, and (2) to elicit comments on their content.

The work reported here began over five years ago when Ralph L. Keeney was affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Howard Raiffa was at Harvard University. The finalization of this work has taken place at IIASA where our interactions with various members of the applied projects has helped to make the presentation more useful to potential practitioners.

Efforts are now beginning to utilize the theories and procedures outlined in this book on the problems being addressed by the applied projects of IIASA. We plan to report on these developments in the various IIASA publications in the near future.